Treasure The Gifts of The Holy Spirit

Understanding gives us a swift, easy, intuitive grasp of the meaning of the truths God has revealed to us. Wisdom helps us to judge Divine things. Counsel helps us to bring all this knowledge to bear upon the decisions we must make in our particular actions. Fortitude perfects our appetite by strengthening it divinely against the fear of danger. Knowledge enables us to judge quickly the created things in the world in their relation to God. Piety perfects the virtue of justice in the will by moving us to do good to all men out of reverence for God. Fear of the Lord perfects our appetite against the inordinate lust for pleasures. The gifts of the Holy Spirit are given to us to produce divine-human acts in us. God produces these acts in us but not without us. We are moved to action by the Holy Spirit, it is still we who move. The actions are ours. They flow forth from our reason and appetite.

Walter Farrell, O.P., S.T.M. and Martin J. Healy, S.T.D.

[This is just one of the 1200 powerful quotations you will find in my award-winning book, Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire! - Words to Challenge, Inspire and Instruct.]

But, Lord, It Is So Difficult

(Image Source- Wikimedia Commons) Jesus warned that sometimes His teachings would bring conflict to those who accepted and lived them (Luke 12: 49-53)…being true to the Gospel means I will have to stand up for what I believe even if it causes division among those with whom I live and work. Jesus, do not let my distaste for conflict keep me from supporting and living Your profound teachings. One Bread, One Body

Let Us Adore Him!

Let us adore Jesus in our hearts, who spent 30 years out of 33 in silence; who began His public life by spending 40 days in silence; who often retired alone to spend the night on a mountain in silence. He, who spoke with authority, now spends His earthly life in silence. Let us adore Jesus in the Eucharistic silence. (Blessed Teresa of Calcutta)

Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

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